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Just Words

On Speech and Hidden Harm

McGowan, Mary Kate (Margaret Clapp '30 Distinguished Alumna Professor of Philosophy, Margaret Clapp '30 Distinguished Alumna Professor of Philosophy, Wellesley College)

Just Words

Just Words

On Speech and Hidden Harm

Just Words

 

We all know that speech can be harmful. But how? Mary Kate McGowan argues that speech constitutes harm when it enacts a norm that prescribes that harm. She investigates such harms as oppression, subordination, and discrimination in such forms of speech as sexist remarks, racist hate speech, pornography, verbal triggers, and micro-aggressions.


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Beschrijving Just Words

We all know that speech can be harmful. But what are these harms, and how exactly does the speech in question bring them about?

Mary Kate McGowan identifies a previously overlooked mechanism by which speech constitutes, rather than merely causes, harm. She argues that speech constitutes harm when it enacts a norm that prescribes that harm. McGowan illustrates this theory by considering many categories of speech including sexist remarks, racist hate speech, pornography, verbal triggers for stereotype threat, micro-aggressions, political dog whistles, slam poetry, and even the hanging of posters. Just Words explores a variety of harms--such as oppression, subordination, discrimination, domination, harassment, and marginalization--and ways in which these harms can be remedied.


ISBN
9780192897398
Pagina's
224
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NUR
610
Druk
1
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Paperback / softback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
OUP Oxford

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